2.1 Analyse specified aspect(s) of studied written text(s), supported by evidence

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Text Title	Text Author	Comment
Non-Fiction
An Angel at my Table	Janet Frame
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou
(First in series of six atuobiographies)
Its Not About The Bike	Lance Armstrong
Krystyna’s Story	Halina Ogonowska-Coates
No Mean Feat	Mark Inglis
Open	Andre Agassi
Purple Heart	Andrew Fiu
Push	Sapphire
The Rugmaker of Mazir-E-Sharif	Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman
Tooth and Nail	Mary Findlay
Novels
A Crime in the Neighbourhood	Suzanne Berne
A Gathering Light	Jennifer Donnelly
Baby No Eyes	Patricia Grace
Before I Die	Jenny Downham
Boys of Blood and Bone	David Metzenthen
Bulibasha	Witi Ihimaera
Cousins	Patricia Grace
Crime Story	Maurice Gee
Falling	Anne Provoost
Feral City	Rosie Scott
Fiela’s Child	Dalene Matthee
Ganglands	Maureen McCarthy
Half of a Yellow Sun	Chimanande Adiche
House of Strife	Maurice Shadbolt
Into the Wild	Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air	Jon Krakauer
Looking for Alaska	John Green
Lord of the Flies	William Golding
Malcolm and Juliet	Bernard Beckett
Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha	Roddy Doyle
Purple Hibiscus	Chimanande Adiche
Right Where It Hurts	David Hill
Smashed	Mandy Hagar
Smith’s Dream	C K Stead
Sold	Patricia McCormick
Sons for the Return Home	Albert Wendt
Spider	William Taylor
St.Agnes’s Stand	Thomas Eidson
The Bonesetter’s Daughter	Amy Tan
The Book of Fame	Lloyd Jones
The Catcher in the Rye	J D Salinger
The Crossing	Mandy Hagar
The Crucible	Arthur Miller
The Edge	Alan Gibbons
The God Boy	Ian Cross
The Help	Kathryn Stockett
The Kitchen God’s Wife	Amy Tan
The Scarecrow	Ronald Hugh Morrieson
The Secret Life of Bees	Sue Monk Kidd
Tin Soldiers	Ian Bones
To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee
Tu	Patricia Grace
Twelve	Nick McDonell
White Teeth	Zadie Smith
Plays
A View From the Bridge	Arthur Miller
Hamlet	Shakespeare
Julius Caesar	Shakespeare
Measure For Measure	Shakespeare
The End of the Golden Weather	Bruce Mason
The Importance of Being Ernest	Oscar Wilde
The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare	Shakespeare
Wednesday To Come	Renee
2.1 Short Texts
Poetry
Fleur Adcock
Maya Angelou
James K Baxter
Carol Ann Duffy
Glenn Colquhoun
Lauris Edmond
Sia Figiel
Seamus Heaney
Langston Hughes
Ted Hughes
Karlo Mila
Wole Soyinka
Robert Sullivan
Hone Tuwhare
The War Poets	Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Thomas
Short Stories
	Raymond Carver
	Kate Chopin
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	F Scott Fitzgerald
	Janet Frame
	Patricia Grace
	Witi Ihimaera
	Katherine Mansfield
	Owen Marshall
Arrangement in Black and White	Dorothy Parker
Visual Texts - Teachers will need to check the Censor’s rating for the following texts to ensure they follow the law. This web address will help:
www. Censorship.govt.nz/DDA/Pages/Screens/DDA/DecisionSearchCriteriaPage.aspx
A Beautiful Mind
A Few Good Men
All Quiet on the Western Front
Amistad
An Angel at My Table
Angela’s Ashes
Braveheart
Bright Star
Children of Men
Citizen Kane
Dead Man Walking
Desert Flower
District 9
Donnie Darko
Doubt
Eight Mile
Erin Brokovich
Everything is Illuminated
Full Metal Jacket
Good Will Hunting
Gran Torino
Hamlet
Hotel Rwanda
In the Name of the Father
Lars and the Real Girl
Life is Beautiful
Made in Dagenham
Malcolm X
Million Dollar Baby
Minority Report
Mississippi Burning
Motorcycle Diaries
Moulin Rouge
No 2
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Rebel Without a Cause
Redemption
Richard III
Road to Perdition
Run Lola, Run
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
Shakespeare in Love
Shawshank Redemption (R16)
Sione’s Wedding
Sleepy Hollow
Sometimes in April
The Bourne Identity
The Cider House Rules
The Constant Gardener
The Counterfeiters
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Deer Hunter
The Help
The Killing Fields
The Matrix
The Navigator
The Pianist
The Queen
The Social Network
Touching the Void
Tsotsi
Winter’s Bone

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